Branding a blighted downtown as an arts and entertainment district, making streets more pedestrian-friendly and luring new restaurants helped redevelop the urban cores of Delray Beach and West Palm Beach, according to two former community redevelopment leaders who have turned their experience into a book.
Christopher Brown, former Community Redevelopment Agency director in Delray Beach, and Kim Briesemeister, who held that position in West Palm Beach, have just put out a handbook on urban development, “Reinventing Your City.”
Amid the book’s launch, the duo, who now run an urban development firm, Redevelopment Management Associates, told the The Real Deal their thoughts on the key elements that led to successful development in West Palm and Delray and what challenges the cities face in the future. – See more at: http://therealdeal.com/miami/2016/03/25/former-cra-directors-talk-delray-beach-wpb-development/#sthash.e3hJMkwB.dpuf